Qt Creator 2.5 Release Candidate has been released today. Since the beta release a lot of bug fixing (180+) has been done, including some crashes and some regressions in the C++ code model handling. Thanks to all who contributed to these 180+ fixes. Full changelog is available here plus there is also a new (experimental) plugin for direct support of autotools project. Qt Creator 2.5 RC can be downloaded from here.

Nokia Belle Feature Pack 1 (version 112.010.1404) has been made available for the Nokia 700, 701 and 603. The FP1 update brings support for Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby Headphone, improved multitasking bar, a set of new homescreen widgets, newer version of Nokia Maps and web browser (with better performance and HTML 5 support), and increases CPU clock on the 700 and 701 from 1 GHz to 1.3 GHz. The update is available Over-The-Air (OTA) as well as via the Nokia Software Update and Nokia Suite software.

Microsoft Office is coming to Symbian, including the Nokia 701, Nokia 700, Nokia 603, Nokia E7, Nokia X7, Nokia C7, Nokia Oro, and Nokia C6-01. You can get it using the Nokia Software Update tool on your smartphone, or connecting your phone to the Nokia Suite on your PC. Office Mobile apps will also be available from the Nokia Store in a few weeks.

In February this year, Nokia announced that OneNote, Lync 2010, Document Connection and PowerPoint Broadcast were available for Symbian. Now, Word Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile and Excel Mobile are the latest applications to join the suite of Microsoft Apps built especially for the latest Symbian smartphones.

Office Mobile apps give you quick access to your documents so that you can get more done while on the go, or when you're not using your laptop. And because these apps were created by Microsoft, the functionalities are as close as possible – if not the same – to the Microsoft Office apps on your PC.

If you're a Word user, you'll appreciate the fact that with Word mobile, you can save or send documents while preserving tables, SmartArt and charts, or the pinch/zoom functionality to easily view and edit documents.

In PowerPoint mobile, you can edit presentation texts and speaker notes, or use the Outline view to quickly browse through slides. With Excel mobile, you can create charts, or insert formulae and view rich data and charts from anywhere.

Another convenient feature of Office Mobile is that it gives you a single view to documents – whether they're stored on your phone as files, as email attachments, or on your company SharePoint site.

The Qt SDK 1.2.1 is now available for download. It brings increased stability to the Qt SDK 1.2. The updated SDK includes Qt 4.8.1 desktop installers for Mac and Windows in addition to Qt source packages. Qt 4.8.1 is the first patch release to the 4.8 series with over 200 functional improvements to the desktop and embedded platforms. The focus of the error corrections, made by primarily by Digia, has been on desktop and embedded platforms with a large number of fixes focussed on QtCore, QtGUI and QtNetwork. For more details please see: Qt 4.8 library release.

Increased ease targeting Nokia N9 through bug fixes and added functionality: The added functionality in the Qt SDK 1.2.1 relates mainly to improved runtimes for testing. The Simulator now supports both landscape and portrait orientations. In addition, the Qt Quick Components in the Simulator have been upgraded to use the same version as is on the device. There are now three separate QEMU images - one each for PR1.0, PR1.1 and PR1.2.

In the last weeks there have also been some other updates that will help you with your Nokia N9 development:

Shader effects using QML. Have you noticed / tested the Qt.labs.shaders plugin yet? It ships with Qt 4.7.4 onwards, making it easier to make graphical effects with QML. A Qt 4 version of the demo is available here for desktop and Nokia N9.

For developers looking at 3D technologies, Qt 3D 1.0 for Qt 4.8.1 has also been released today. Qt 3D will be providing OpenGL accelerated 3D content defined in QML. Qt 3D packages for Harmattan and Symbian are not pre-built and you'll have to build them yourself. Nokia N9 build instructions can be found here.

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